Stokes in fitness fight for first Pakistan Test as hungry Crawley returns
- Captain may not be ready for Monday’s start in Multan
- Crawley back as opener after missing Sri Lanka series
Zak Crawley declared that he is fully fit and “back with a new hunger” after missing the second half of England’s Test summer with a broken finger but the extent to which Ben Stokes has recovered from the torn hamstring that forced him to miss the series against Sri Lanka is less certain, with the captain participating only briefly in the team’s first training session in Pakistan.
Crawley said Stokes “seems to be going well, recovering well” but that “we don’t know just yet” if he will be able to play in the opening game of the series, which starts in Multan on Monday. “I think he’s got to do a few more tests,” the opener added. The last official update on his injury came 10 days ago, when a carefully worded England and Wales Cricket Board statement said he was “on track to participate in the upcoming Test series against Pakistan”.
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